Tomorrows World

[johnmc]

What happened to it, the programme I mean.

If you look back 15/20 years ago we didnt really have the internet, we had big televisions that were 4 foot deep and had only 4 channels, only landline phones, desktop computers, you had to use a map for directions etc.

Fast forward to now and no doubt you would be amazed at the progress. But what has happened over the last 5-6 years? Yes there have been advancements in what we already have but I can't think of any new significant technology recently - tvs are bigger and clearer, phones and computers are smaller and can do more, even cars have just had things improved rather than anything new of any great note.

So what can you see happening over the next 15-20 years - are we reaching a plateau where there is less we are able to do with whats available to us.

 

[BWTAC]

Hover cars and Moon homes for the elderly. Oh and doors that make a schhhht sound when they open and close.

 

[Anonymous]

Ran from 1965-2003 apparently , but was then dropped because the BBC allegedly had decided to replace the half hour weekly shows , with just the odd 'special' show , which will still be broadcast under the 'Tomorrows World' brand ...

however when it was finally 'pulled' as a weekly show , after 38 years , viewer ratings had apparently dropped from 10million to 3million ...... and it's a pretty safe bet that that will have been the REAL reason for the shows demise !

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

What happened to it, the programme I mean.

If you look back 15/20 years ago we didnt really have the internet, we had big televisions that were 4 foot deep and had only 4 channels, only landline phones, desktop computers, you had to use a map for directions etc.

Fast forward to now and no doubt you would be amazed at the progress. But what has happened over the last 5-6 years? Yes there have been advancements in what we already have but I can't think of any new significant technology recently - tvs are bigger and clearer, phones and computers are smaller and can do more, even cars have just had things improved rather than anything new of any great note.

So what can you see happening over the next 15-20 years - are we reaching a plateau where there is less we are able to do with whats available to us.

6 years ago your phone was a phone now its most peoples all in one media centre and you cant imagine life without it. Cars have vastly improved. Have to remember that TV's cant really get any thinner than they are and that most of the world for 4 years has been at a stand still or going in reverse finacially

 

[johnmc]

6 years ago your phone was a phone now its most peoples all in one media centre and you cant imagine life without it. Cars have vastly improved. Have to remember that TV's cant really get any thinner than they are and that most of the world for 4 years has been at a stand still or going in reverse finacially

Yes I agree, but these are advancements on existing technology and not really new technology. Can you see anything new that will be in widespread use in 10-15 years? Surely there will be but its hard to imagine what it might be.

That hologram stuff they used to do tupac and elvis concerts might be something - that pops up when someone rings you but hover cars and all that jazz arent realistic. Who knows.

 

[fulabeer]

Self drive (electric) cars will be the next big thing. Self park, adaptive cruise control and lane assist mean it is virtually here already. Smart fully internet enabled homes, with all appliances having to be energy saving net compliant is another. Cloud based media (via moble data masts) will signal the end to DVD and Blu-rays, and eventually smart sticks. TV will change the most. Well at least they way we watch it now. Standard channels as we know them now will disappear. TV schedules will be tailored to the individual (Tivo style), and will include inbuilt advertising to match.

We will be spending increasingly more time at home. Travelling by car or going on holiday will become a rationed credit based activity. Journeys will have to be prebooked, and authorised only within your rationed credits. Advertisers will have increasing control over ours lives, and large companies will become political entities at some point.

Like it or not, everything there is to know about you will be available. Your entire history will be mapped and recorded and available to the highest bidder. Forget about a dodgy credit history, i'm talking about your DNA. People with bad genes will become second class citizens. That is until even that can be altered. The rich and powerful will even alter(data) history to suit themselves. (just like United try to do......."joint first last year" etc)

One guaranteed thing for the next 20 years is that it will be blue not red!

 

[BWTAC]

Self drive (electric) cars will be the next big thing. Self park, adaptive cruise control and lane assist mean it is virtually here already. Smart fully internet enabled homes, with all appliances having to be energy saving compliant is another. Cloud based media (via moble data masts) will signal the end to DVD and Blu-rays, and eventually smart sticks. TV will change the most. Well at least they way we watch it now. Standard channels as we know them now will disappear. TV schedules will be tailored to the individual (Tivo style), and will include inbuilt advertising to match.

We will be spending increasingly more time at home. Travelling by car or going on holiday will become a rationed credit based activity. Journeys will have to be prebooked, and authorised only within your rationed credits. Advertisers will have increasing control over ours lives, and large companies will become political entities at some point.

Like it or not, everything there is to know about you will be available. Your entire history will be mapped and recorded and available to the highest bidder. Forget about a dodgy credit history, i'm talking about your DNA. People with bad genes will become second class citizens. That is until even that can be altered. The rich and powerful will even alter(data) history to suit themselves. (just like United try to do......."joint first last year" etc)

One guaranteed thing for the next 20 years is that it will be blue not red!

And so they should, the baggy arsed twats.

 

[ancoats]

if they said 20 years ago that somebody with billions in the bank would own manchester city football club and in 3 season win the fa cup premier league
community shield

you laugh your arse off

 

[denislawsbackheel]

What happened to it, the programme I mean.

If you look back 15/20 years ago we didnt really have the internet, we had big televisions that were 4 foot deep and had only 4 channels, only landline phones, desktop computers, you had to use a map for directions etc.

Fast forward to now and no doubt you would be amazed at the progress. But what has happened over the last 5-6 years? Yes there have been advancements in what we already have but I can't think of any new significant technology recently - tvs are bigger and clearer, phones and computers are smaller and can do more, even cars have just had things improved rather than anything new of any great note.

So what can you see happening over the next 15-20 years - are we reaching a plateau where there is less we are able to do with whats available to us.

6 years ago your phone was a phone now its most peoples all in one media centre and you cant imagine life without it. Cars have vastly improved. Have to remember that TV's cant really get any thinner than they are and that most of the world for 4 years has been at a stand still or going in reverse finacially

now its most peoples all in one media centre and you cant imagine life without it.

don't know what world you live in but it aint mine!

 

[Ducado]

I used to like Tomorrows World, but they did not predict the internet, they did predict mobile phones however but not in the guise we see it, I think they might have just got Micro Wave ovens, mind you it was not really about prediction they were just reporting what had been invented

Future technology is hard to predict, I can't really find any predictions about the Internet, I guess no one could see a need for it like they could with mobiles, but is it an artificially created need, we survived for 1000's of years without running water and basic sanitation

 

[roman totale]

I remember TW showcasing CDs well before they became commercialized. Maybe early 80's. Used to love that programme. I'd forgotten that the BBC said they would keep the 'brand' for one- offs. Did that ever really happen? I left the UK 10 years ago, but I don't ever recall seeing it done.

 

[kippaxwarrior]

I used to like Tomorrows World, but they did not predict the internet, they did predict mobile phones however but not in the guise we see it, I think they might have just got Micro Wave ovens, mind you it was not really about prediction they were just reporting what had been invented

Future technology is hard to predict, I can't really find any predictions about the Internet, I guess no one could see a need for it like they could with mobiles, but is it an artificially created need, we survived for 1000's of years without running water and basic sanitation

33 years ago!!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vix6TMnj9vY[/youtube]

 

[Why Always Ste]

As already mentioned here - SelfDrive electricity vehicles are the next big thing for me.

I've seen concept cities with these cars in action and due to their popularity, there are docking stations at parking bays, so whilst your car is parked - it's charging.

Collision detection features of these cars means they just drive along with everyone being the passenger.

There are small innovations I've seen such as the Fridge which detects what food has ran out and automatically sends the shopping list to say Tesco.com and the supermarket delivers your shopping.

A great thing I'd love to see would be a Robot that could cook the food.
Basic models would just cook beans on toast whilst the more affluent families will have robots that could cook michelin star quality food every night of the week.

Maybe the Chef-Bot would be available one day? it isn't impossible.

The Big invention would be enabling you to be some place where you are not, using advanced screen technology, HD-camera and this augmented reality (but in a more advanced stage)

Imagine stepping into a room, every wall and ceiling is a screen, no windows, just a visual representation of an exact place somewhere in the world... This could be pre-recorded footage of say a stroll on a beach, or maybe even a live event maybe a music concert or a football match?

The concept would presumably be done via cables attached to your brain which detect the signals your brain sends to control your body... so you could move around on say the beach and have a run around on this beach whilst still being in your living room.

You missed the chance of getting a ticket for the match/ meh no worries, watch it live on Sky Anywhere

 

[buzzer1]

What happened to it, the programme I mean.

If you look back 15/20 years ago we didnt really have the internet, we had big televisions that were 4 foot deep and had only 4 channels, only landline phones, desktop computers, you had to use a map for directions etc.

Fast forward to now and no doubt you would be amazed at the progress. But what has happened over the last 5-6 years? Yes there have been advancements in what we already have but I can't think of any new significant technology recently - tvs are bigger and clearer, phones and computers are smaller and can do more, even cars have just had things improved rather than anything new of any great note.

So what can you see happening over the next 15-20 years - are we reaching a plateau where there is less we are able to do with whats available to us.

6 years ago your phone was a phone now its most peoples all in one media centre and you cant imagine life without it. Cars have vastly improved. Have to remember that TV's cant really get any thinner than they are and that most of the world for 4 years has been at a stand still or going in reverse finacially

now its most peoples all in one media centre and you cant imagine life without it.

don't know what world you live in but it aint mine!

Hahaha brilliant work den, to be fair though he did say MOST and just one question from me to you, are you Billy Bradshaws Dad?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

What happened to it, the programme I mean.

If you look back 15/20 years ago we didnt really have the internet, we had big televisions that were 4 foot deep and had only 4 channels, only landline phones, desktop computers, you had to use a map for directions etc.

Fast forward to now and no doubt you would be amazed at the progress. But what has happened over the last 5-6 years? Yes there have been advancements in what we already have but I can't think of any new significant technology recently - tvs are bigger and clearer, phones and computers are smaller and can do more, even cars have just had things improved rather than anything new of any great note.

So what can you see happening over the next 15-20 years - are we reaching a plateau where there is less we are able to do with whats available to us.

I was thinking just the other day, if you took an ordinary person from, say, three hundred years ago and put them in the middle of a modern city, would they recognise this as the same planet that they were from - I suspect not.

In some respects it is not the inventions as much as the sheer speed at which memory size and computing speed has advanced in the last 60 years. I read in a Robert Harris about a theory that was first espoused in the 1950's about these two factors increasing at a factor of about 1.5 pa, a theory that has been pretty much spot on btw. Over 60 years that has provided a 25 billion fold increase in memory size and computing speeds - a frightening thought.. It is the rate at which information is shared and exchanged that has provided the biggest platform for the most recent advances within mankind.

No-one can predict what is next. I do wonder whether there will be physical limits placed on information processing ie the speed of light, which will presumably eventually limit the continued growth of technological advance.

It's frightening to think where this could all end up tbh.

 

[dazdon]

Judit Hann used to give me the horn.

 

[Rascal]

It will be back in 15 years time

thats toorrows world

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

What happened to it, the programme I mean.

If you look back 15/20 years ago we didnt really have the internet, we had big televisions that were 4 foot deep and had only 4 channels, only landline phones, desktop computers, you had to use a map for directions etc.

Fast forward to now and no doubt you would be amazed at the progress. But what has happened over the last 5-6 years? Yes there have been advancements in what we already have but I can't think of any new significant technology recently - tvs are bigger and clearer, phones and computers are smaller and can do more, even cars have just had things improved rather than anything new of any great note.

So what can you see happening over the next 15-20 years - are we reaching a plateau where there is less we are able to do with whats available to us.

6 years ago your phone was a phone now its most peoples all in one media centre and you cant imagine life without it. Cars have vastly improved. Have to remember that TV's cant really get any thinner than they are and that most of the world for 4 years has been at a stand still or going in reverse finacially

now its most peoples all in one media centre and you cant imagine life without it.

don't know what world you live in but it aint mine!

Well it either means you are over 40 (very likely) or live in outer mongolia (very unlikely) either way I cant help you. Not that you want my help I just thought as you are being pedantic I could join in as well

 

[yerwot?]

3d printing moving into the world of organ replacement is on the way.
i imagine the demand for convenience-driven technologies will be eclipsed by the sociological changes that will start to dominate global affairs, on the lines of the "arab spring" , however weapon research will plough on regardless, hypersonic cruise missiles have been tested, and when operational will have huge consequences.
Thought-controlled devices are already viable and cheap, mind control is well-advanced using similar techniques.
Graphene has limitless potential, due to it's weight to strength ratio being far in excess of anything else, a single span bridge over the channel for instance
Nano based technology is already in the shops, but just scratching the surface at the mo, an iphone on the head of a pin? oh yes
GM foods when used to end starvation and not to make a profit are on the to-do list when the multinationals realize they make more out of the living than the dead.
If these technologies were used for the good of man-kind the future would be unrecognisably benevolent. History tells us "dont hold your breath"

 

[BulgarianPride]

What happened to it, the programme I mean.

If you look back 15/20 years ago we didnt really have the internet, we had big televisions that were 4 foot deep and had only 4 channels, only landline phones, desktop computers, you had to use a map for directions etc.

Fast forward to now and no doubt you would be amazed at the progress. But what has happened over the last 5-6 years? Yes there have been advancements in what we already have but I can't think of any new significant technology recently - tvs are bigger and clearer, phones and computers are smaller and can do more, even cars have just had things improved rather than anything new of any great note.

So what can you see happening over the next 15-20 years - are we reaching a plateau where there is less we are able to do with whats available to us.

So what do you need that we don't already have? This is pretty much the question that leads to innovation. Once the need comes, the technology will follow.

It also really depends on what you mean by technology. Are you just interested in the high level devices ( what the user sees and experiences ) or the low level parts?